If I read between the lines, it seems like the more important thing is to be able to tell what grid selection is active, not necessarily to change it through a dropdown (the dropdown is just what is already implemented).
There are other ways of doing this that take up less real-estate. For example, Altium puts it in tiny text in the status bar, and you can get immediate feedback when you toggle through grid settings using hotkeys. [image: image.png] We already make some use of our status bar (mostly for showing coordinates) but I think we could generally use it much better, since it is a whole window-width of "free" real estate for showing information that people might want to know such as the grid setting. On the other hand, I don't think there is any need at all for the user to see a dropdown of zoom choices. I would just as soon remove that from PcbNew as I would find a way to add it to Eeschema (and this includes from the context menu) -Jon On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:15 AM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > > I'm on the fence on this one. I rarely make grid changes in Eeschema > and I never use the zoom drop down in any of the kicad main windows so I > would say don't use valuable screen real estate by adding another > horizontal toolbar. If some users absolutely have to have this, I'm > fine with implementing it but it would be nice to be able to hide the > extra toolbar for those of us who will never use it. > > Wayne > > On 7/31/2018 5:48 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > > Ping > > > >> On 12 Jul 2018, at 02:46, Jeff Young <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Just to have the link handy: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1689024 > >> > >>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 15:36, Jeff Young <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> GerbView was easy because it already has an auxiliary horizontal > toolbar. > >>> > >>> However, Eeschema does not, meaning that if we added one we’d be > giving up significant screen real-estate. > >>> > >>> Another option would be to put it in the main horizontal toolbar, but > then we’d have to drop some stuff that is currently in it. Candidates > might include: > >>> - page settings > >>> - paste (we manage to get by without it in PcbNew) > >>> - redraw (on the few screen glitches I’ve seen this button hasn’t > helped anyway) > >>> - footprint editor (not in current menus; should be added to Tools > whether we remove the tool icon or not) > >>> - BOM (not in the current menus; should be added to File > Export > whether we remove the tool icon or not) > >>> - update PCB > >>> - back-annotate (needs to be added to Tools menu either way) > >>> > >>> So, > >>> > >>> a) leave Eeschema without grid/zoom dropdowns > >>> b) trim toolbar icons and add dropdowns to main toolbar > >>> c) add an auxiliary toolbar > >>> d) something I haven’t thought of > >>> > >>> Thoughts appreciated. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Jeff. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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